Word: poises
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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For a good time, records show the Shooting Club threw elaborate banquets. A menu from a banquet given for members of the club in 1887 showed that the expert shooters dined on patties of lobster, gloucester, croquettes of chicken auxpetits pois, spaghetti parmesan au gratin and banana fritters glace benedictine...
King Richard III was a monster. He poisoned his wife, stole the throne from his two young nephews and ordered them to be smothered in the Tower of London. Richard was a sort of Antichrist the King -- "that bottled spider, that pois'nous bunch-back'd toad."
The sought-after appliance is aimed at the serious cook with serious money (list price: as much as $6,800). The most popular model is equipped with six porcelain-coated grates, a grill and two gas ovens (one with an infra-red broiler that reaches 1500 degrees F in 30...